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A/V Performance November 5, 2014
B- INFO
Type
A/V Performance

Technology
Archive + Machine Learning

Date
November 5, 2014

Location
Los Angeles, US
Credits

Refik Anadol
Bahadir Dagdelen
Efsun Erkilic
Toby Heinimann
Michael Hsiu
Kian Khiaban
Woeishi Lean
Laurence Menor
Raman K. Mustafa
Sebastian Neitsch
Simon Russell
Jared Solomon


Artistic Management

Dave Hunt


Specs

3 Channel Audio
8 Channel Sound Recording
Custom Software
3D Depth Camera
Media Servers


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C- Video
D- Concept
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Visions of America: Amériques is a site-specific architectural video installation, which was developed to illuminate and enhance Edgard Varèse’s’ composition and to complement the architecture of Walt Disney Concert Hall. The dynamic visual program uses custom-built algorithmic sound analysis to listen and respond in real-time to the music and movements of conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. It utilized the architecture as a canvas, light as a material, and sound as the inspiration.

This collaboration was approached as a non-linear and ephemeral interaction between Salonen, Varèse, and Refik Anadol Studio. Transforming Varese’s timeless musical fiction into an immersive visual medium, Visions of America: Ameriques embodied the possibility for a new kind of storytelling. Rather than approaching this medium as a means of escape into some disembodied techno-utopian fantasy, this project sees itself as a means of return – releasing habitual perceptions and biased assumptions to perceive our own stories and the stories around us in a new dimension. 

 

 

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E- Data and Process 
F- Photographs
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